I forgot because I'm not familiar with vlc, it gets quite interesting. If Audio->Audio device is set to 5.1 after opening the file with vlc, both the Dolby and the Ogg test file produce output from all 6 speakers, but the sound is stuttering and vlc spews lots of the following error messages: alsa error: write failed (Broken pipe)
-- totem-gstreamer does not support 5.1 surround sound https://launchpad.net/bugs/40732 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
